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VOL. XI.
FINAL EDITION
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1921
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NO. 189.
V. U t a d: D d C5
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Peak of Sweet Potato
Crop Reached Last Week
Growers Satisfied With Prices, But Discourag
ed By Reduction In Yield Caused By Con
tinued Dry Weather During Season
Between 60,000 and 65,000
barrels of Currituck sweet po
tatoes have already been ship
ped, according to estimates
made Saturday by C. A.
Wright, prominent potato
grower of Jarvisburg, Curri-,
tuck County., and J. H. Baker,
general superintendent of the
North River Line. Of this
total, 54,076 barrels have been',
handled by the line which Mr.
Baker represents. Other ship-!
jnents of Currituck, potatoes'
Jhave gone by boat to Norfolk,1
and by rail from Moyock and !
. rLrLr; 'h,:i
recorded ' this "season, the North'
River' Line totaf being 27,789 bar-
rels, divided as follows: Monday, 801
barrels; Tuesday, 3,962; Wednes
day, 5,627; Thursday, 6,913; Fri
day, 5,713; and Saturday, 4,753.
Thursday, as will be noted, record
ed thn heaviest shipments for a sin-
, av ' j
Those In close touch with the
wPt nntato situation In Currituck
believe that 60 to 75 per cent of the
season's crop has already been dug.
Tt ia nninfed out that many of the
lareest Dlanters have harvested their
entire crops; and practically all the
growers have already aug at leasi
half of theirs. The Btock is report-
ed to be exceptionally good, but the
. crop iolPtt to , aBuextent estimated .
Dy some a m&u b any yci
and it is believed by leading ship
pers that the yield for the season
will not exceed 75,000 barrels.
Thus far potato prices have been
reasonably satisfactory to the
growers. Buyers at Powell's Point
and Jarvisburg Saturday were offer-,
ing $4.00 a barrel for sweets loaded
on the wharves. Some of those who
have shipped their potatoes have re-1
ceived as high as $12 a barrel fori
their consignments. I
It is generally conceded that the
peak of the Sweet potato season was
reached last week. Dally shipments
will steadily decline until the last
potatoes go North about September,
1st. But for the extremely dry;
weather, the Currituck potato crop
this year would have eclipsed in
volume any previous crop in the his-i
tory of the County for the acreage
planted was phenomenally large.
However, the growers may derive
material consolation from the pro
bability that, had the yield been in
proportion to the acreage, the market
might have been glutted, with d!s-
astrous effect upon the price. j
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MRS. GRAVES DEAD
Mrs. Georgia Graves, 74 years old,
died at the home of Mrs. Lizzie Over-1
man on South Road street Sunday
afternoon at 1:45 o'clock, after a
brief illness. She was the widow
of W. W. Graves, and had long been
a member of the Overman household,
where she served as housekeeper,
and formerly was in the home of
Mrs. J. JMarsnau rooi, on nasi
Church street. She leaves no near
relatives.
The funeral will be conducted at
the Overman home Tuesday morning
"at 10:30 o'clock by Rev. H. K. Wll-
Hams, and Interment will be made
in Hollywood.
MOTORCYCLER IS
KILLED ON TRACK
1
Toledo, Aug. 15 (By The Associat
ed Press) After breaking the
world's dirt tr&fk mntorrvcle record
for one mile in forty-six seconds, Al-
bert W. Burns, of California,
today killed on the track.
ADOPT PROGRAM
TAX REVISION
Washington, Aug, 15 (By The As-'
sociated Prens) House Republicans
are understood to hsre adopted the
program of the administration tat
revision bill Saturday. The bill Is
des'gned to raise three billion dol-
lars during the calendar year with
the repeal of excess profits taxes and
lncotne surtaxes in excess of SI per
cent.
Schooner Is Total
Wreck At Beaufort
Beaufort, N. C, Aug.
15 (By The Associated
Press) The schooner
Louise Howard is a total
loss on the breakers here
today at a loss of fifty
eight thousand dollars.
The crew was saved.
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' Annul
JjULLS RL"0r fcJN
MILITIA ON GUARD .
J
Union Employes Jibe Non-
Union Men But Do Not In-
terfere Other Mills To
T7iv
Concord, N. C, Aug. 15 (By The
Associated Press) The Locke Cot-
ton mill re-opened with State Mlliti.atedjPjBss) The Japanese cabinet
on guard for protection of non-union is today considering reports that the
workers. A crowd of union em-
ployes formed, but only Jibed the re-
turning workers. It was announced
that the Hartsell mills would re-open
at noon.
uuo mau oimcu mui icvu.rci
armed
was arresiea toaay.
Alabama TrOOPS
Check Race
Riot
Anniston, Ala., Aug. 15 (By The
Associated Press) The State militia
was called to Bibb County today to
check the race riot that resulted
from the
slaying of the fourteen-
, : . , x
year-old daughter of a prominent
farmer. A negro is held charged
with the crime.
1 Later Reports
Later it wag said that the militia
was to accompany Clyde Thomas,
negro, to Centerville, where he will
be arraigned in connection with the
munier of a farmer's daughter and
that tne report o( a rlot wag untruei
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DISCUSS PEACE IN
FORMAL MEETING
Dublin, Aug. 15 (By The Associ
ated Press) Many members of the
Irish Republican parliament will
meet today for the first time in for-
mal meeting to discuss Irish peace.
Negotiations have heen made In
prison and on the run.
HAT SHOP GETS READY
FOR THE PALL SEASOX
The Hat Shop has recently been
repainted inside and out and even
tne 8gn on the window is brand
new. The entire place Is looking so
fre8h and clean and attractive that
the passerby immediately remem-
hers that fall millinery will soon be
0n display with its new colors,
fashions and fabrics. The Misses
Markham are ready for the Beason
ani wjn have an unusually handsome
ine of millinery for early fall,
HOGGARD-rUTXAM
Undeterred by lightning, thun-
Ider, rain and mud, Willie Earl Hog-
Eard 8nd Ml8s wlnn!e Putnam mot-
ored to this city Saturday afternoon
from Newport News, and were mar
ried at eight o'clock that night by
Rev. II. E. Myers at the home of Reg-
iRter of Deeds - w- Brothers, on
North Road
street.
They returned
to Newport
I mony.
News
after the cere-
Negro l Sentenced
Within 1 WO OOUrS
Greenwood, S. C. Aug. 16 (By The
Associated Press) Within two
hours after the first juror was drawn
"Pink" Griffin, negro, was tried,
found guilty and sentenced to elee-
trocutlon on September second for
the murder of Dr. Law ton Llpscom.
.The Jury was out. ten minutes.
Dr. G. W. Clarke
Resigns Pastorate
At the evening service at Black
well Memorial church Sunday, Dr.
G. W. Clarke, pastor of Blackwell
Memorial Baptist church for the last
four years, tendered his resignation,
effective September 20th, and the
congregation accepted the resigna
tion as tendered by a vote of 47 to
46.
45 DROWNED AND
ONLY ONE SAVED
Kobe, Japan, Aug. 15 (By The As
sociated Press) Forty-five seamen
are believed to have been drowned
in the wreck of the steamer Shoshu
In a typhoon. Only one seaman was
saved.
Alleged Slayer Is
On Hunger Strike
' Calgary, Alberta, Aug. 15 (By The
I Associated Press) Dr. R. M. Brum
ifleld charged with slaying Dennis
j Russell, Is on a hunger strike and
growing very weak,
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Wild Tribesmen
Want American Rule
Davao, Philippine Islands, Aug.
5 (By The Associated Press) Wild
tribesmen here today told General
Wood that they favor American rule
whlle the christians ask for lnde-
pendence
T
New rlan
Reported
rbr Control Of China
Tokio, Aug. '15 (By The Assoc!
United Stales may suggest control of
China by lin international cOmmis
sion.
MANY AUTOS STOLEN
NEW YORK CITY
New York, Aug. 15 (By The Asso
ciated Press) Over two and a half
million (10!iarS WOrtn OI aUtOmODUeS
hae beei 8tolen in New York since
f eoruary.
OBENCHAIN INDICTED
IN KENNEDY MURDER
T.na Anfrolaa Amy IK f Rv Tha A a -
. . . " nu
sociated Press) Ralph B. Oben-
chain was today indicted in connec
tion with the killing of J. Belton
Kennedy.
Deadlock Over
Relief For Russia
Riga, Letvia, Aug. 15 (By The As
sociated Press) A deadlock in ne
gotiations for American relief of the
Russian famine between the Ameri-igate
can Keller Administration ana tne,
Soviet representative Is reported.
An appeal to Washington and Mos
cow is believed likely.
Frying Pan Fatal
Omen To Drivers
Caught between the frying pan
and the Fair Ground, Morris Doxey,
an employe of Twlddy's Grocery,
was fined $10 and costs for speeding
by Recorder Spence in city court
here Monday morning. Pasquotank
County's enterprising and resource
ful traffic officers have nailed a fry
ing pan to a fencepost, 100 yards
from a designated point on the Fair
Ground fence, it Is said, and auto-
mob ie drivers nabnert. covering this 1
distance in nve seconds or less may
forward to
a session In Court.
Edgar Williams paid the costs of assault on a white woman of Jones
a hearing on a charge of failure tojCountyi and after hanging him to an
oicpiay me proper license tag upon
one of his cars.
Will Freeman, colored, was fined
$5 and costs for assault.'
George Everett, colored, charged
with speeding, was fined $10 and
costs.'
Leonard Armstrong and Willie
Crane were fined $5 and costs each
for affray.
Joe Swindell, in court on a charge
of speeding, paid a fine of $10 and
costs.
Urge a Help
Southern
For
Farmers
Washington, Aug. 15 (By The As-1
iclated Press) Government loRns
to Southern farmers to tide them
over until they ran market their cot-
,on wer nrep'' today by Martin
Amorrus. of Marietta. Ga before
the Congressional Committee Inves-
UgaUng agricultural conditions.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Ptigh, Mrs.
Fred Davis and children Weymouth
snd Margaret, snd Rev. H. E. My-
ers lejt Monday for in automobile
trip to Lake Junaluska.
THINK MAN IS
AMBROSE SMALL
Isolated Farm House Dis
closes
Dazed
Mysterious Person,
and Legless Pos-
sible Missing Millionaire
-
Des Moines, la., Aug. 15 (By The
Associated Press) A man of mys
tery who detectives believe to be
Ambrose Small, missing Toronto
theatre millionaire, was found today
in an isolated farm house dazed and
legless.
Five Are Killed In
Million Dollar Fire
Philadelphia, Aug. 15 (By The
Associated Press) Five were killed
in the fire of the Atlantic Refining
Company, which was extinguished !
today. The loaa
million dollars.
is estimated at a
THIS CITY IS ON
STATE HONOR ROLL,0-
Lvery 1 hree Persons
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IS Une Uf I tie Seven norm
Carolina Cities Having No
Fires During The Month
Of July
Elizabeth City is one of the seven
North Carolina cities on the Honor
Roll of the .gtate Insurance Depart
ment for. July, Jusf, made public, not
a single Are having occurred here
during the month. The other six
cities
High
are Burlington, Reidsville,
Point, Washington, North
Wilkesboro and Rocky Mount.
The
entire fire lols of the State during
the month amounted to $512,775, as
compared with $33,760 for June.
Hajf of the total fire loss of the
month was entailed in the destruc-
tion of a large fibre board factory
ner Roanoke Rapids. Fires result
ant from known causes during July
caanltait In an imnnta tnmuira nt
only $66,886. "Most of the latter
were caused by oil stoves, sparks on 1
shingle roofs, defective flues, gaso
line and matches, cigarette stubs
and electricity. j
Cities Buffering only a nominal
fire loss were Henderson, $10; New!
Bern, $25; Goldsboro, $125; More-'
head City, $25, and Mooresvllle, $35.
The fire loss for the United States
and Canada was $33,355,750, thus
far the highest for any single month
of 1921 except January. This
brings the total loss for the first
seven months of the year up to
$198,282,050, an excess of $9,000,-
000 over a similar period In 1920,
and $48,000,000 above the aggr-fr
loss
for the same months in
1919
U K CUK.Wfr SlPPKIt AT
EPWOItTH CllllU II THURSDAY
There will be an ice cream sup
per Thursday night at Epworth
Methodist church. The proceeds
will be used for the church and the
public is Invited to attend the sup
per.' Lynch Negro Who
Assaulted Woman;
Kinst0n, N. C, Aug. 15. A mob
farloUBly estimated at 1.000 to 2,000
,moj mB ,ontnrnrf .tornmn whit.
nocrrn rhanrod with criminal
oak tree by the road side riddled his'
body witn Dunets aooui noon eun
day.
The victim of the alleged assault,
committed late Saturday. Is reported
o have positively . Identified the ne
gro when he was taken to her home.
j!x miles from the Jones County
woods in which the capture was made
Sunday morning. She Is the wife of
a promUient Jones County farmer.
Southern Industries
Must Be Protected
Greensboro. N. C. Aug. 15 (By
The Associated Press) Protection
of Southern Industries through im-
position of tariff on forefgn products
was declared essential xor develop
ment of home enterprises In the ad
dress here today before the South
ern tariff congress by John H,Klrby,
president of the organization.
Mr. snd Mrs. Llnwood Jennings
have returned from their wedding
trip.
New Bank Officers
Are Hundred Percent
The officers of the Carolina Bank
ing and Trust Company have sub
scribed to the Hospital Fund 100 per
cent, every officer taklnir ntnrlf In
the proposed community Institution,
Secretary Job announced Monday
morning, lnis ts the first bank to
put across the Hospital Drive in this
way.
CROOK-GRICE
Miss Maude Grice, of this city and
were married at Christ church Mon- burglar broke into the Apothe-
day afternoon at half past two cary Shop at Main and McMor
o'clock by Rev. Q F Hill rector. fae street on one f th mosfc
The bride is the daughter of Mr. ... ... ., ,
and Mrs. f. m. Grice, of this city, P"b"C corners m the city, rifled
and the groom is president of the both , cash registers, and stole
10cal wane utility companies.
Tne marriage was a very quiet one
and came as a surprise to friends of
Dotn Drlae an groom.
ine ceremony was attended only
by a party of intimate friends of the
couple. Mr. and Mrs. Crook left on
the afternoon train for Baltimore,
where they will make their home.
Products of PubHHhinar Comnanlps
In
1019 Worth Billion
And a Half
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Washington, Aug. 15 (By The As
sociated Press) More than eleven
and a quarter billion copies of daily
newspapers are printed annually in
the United -States, averaging one
copy a day for every three and one
fifth persons of the country's total
population, latest statistics of the
Bureau of the Census show. i,
Circulation of the nation's 2,433
daily newspapers aggregated 32,
735,937 copies a day, an Increase of
13.8 per cent in the five years since
1914. The circulation of the 592
Sunday newspapers was 19,929,834
copies each Sunday during 1919, an
increase of 14.9 per cent.
The aggregate circulation of these
daily and Sunday newspapers, there-
. "-,V-U0i''01 ur, hours a day while we're open, but
106.6 copies per capita for the year.'mu8t get ln9,de after closlng our8
Total circulation of the country's a8 wen." -
ztMdi newspapers and periodicals
aggregated 15,475,145,102 copies for
the year, an increase of 7 per cent
TV, " year8, inat
eludes daily, Sunday, tri-weekly,
semi-weekly, weekly, monthly, quar -
terly, and all other newspapers and
periodicals
Auo iJiiiiLiiig ruu iiuuuouiuK minis
try's products were valued in 1919
at $1,528,856,503, of which news
papers and periodicals contributed
$808,066,035, and newspapers alone
$612,718,515, an increase of 116.0
per cent in flye years.
Newspaper subscriptions and sales
aggregated $204,958,214, an in
crease of 105.9 per cent.
Advertising totaled $407,760,301,
an Increase of 121.5 per cent.
Speaks To Laymen
On Brotherliness
Lake Junaluska, Aug. 15. "The
question Is no longer how does the
other half live It Is how does the
83 per cent live?" the Rev. James
Myers of the Presbyterian Church to
day told the Laymen's conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
in session here. Dr. Myers is execu
lve secretary of the board of opera
Ives at the Dutchess Bleachery, Wap
plngers Falls, N. Y. He spoke on
"Religion In Industry."
"The mission of religion to the rreTurkg Are Retiring
tit disturbed social order is not sOi tirii . r .
sen
much a message to the poor to res
nect the'sacredness nf tlia nronerfv.
ghls of the rlch althouP;h u lB that
a!so, as It Is a message to the rich ln,lea rressj me ureeKS are anv
in thH nam and unlrlt nf Jpsub Christ l"K their second offensive against the
u0 br, abont more brotherly d..j
tributlon of wealth, health, Joy and
freedom In the world," the Rev. Mr.
Myers said.
"This can not be done by charity,
nor can it be done by violence. The
Inequalities of the present economic
order can be eliminated only by a
more brotherly distribution of the
profits of industry at the source of
production.
"Wealth can be reapportioned In a
brotherly way only where it Is made,
in the process of its production, by
the granting of a truly living wage,
by a voluntary decrease in the Inter-
est expected for the use of capital,
an( by a vpry n,a(prai increase In the
financial rewards paid to human be -
ings for their labor of hand or brain, financial drain of sickness, have their
"Is It brotherly," asked Rev. Mr. 'salaries continued to them as long
Myers, "that the financial burden of as they are III? Is it brotherly that
life should bear down the hardest' the highest profits in the real estate
upon those who have the least! Is business should be commonly de
It brotherly that s poor man should' rived from the tenement property,
have to pay the highest prices for all, the least deslrabls accommodations
r9 ihm tiAKAaatf Ina nf llfaf Ta It In Ida Knl tt t. . v .
brotherly that the day laborer's pay
APOTHECARY SHOP
ROBBED BY NIGHT
Thief With Plenty Of
Nerve Enters Side
Window, Gets Money
And Cigarettes m
Some time between midnight
Saturday night and daybreak
cunHflv
morning, a daring
a
carton of cigarettes. The
thief obtained about ten dol
lars in change which S. G. Eth
eridge, the manager, had left
in the registers at closing time
Saturday night.
The burglar entered the drug
store by a small window in the grill
room, which had been left open, ex
cept for a screen, the sill of which is
about five feet above the sidewalk.
He climbed on a box, tore out the
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w screen with a broken floor
mop. stepped through the window
upon one of the marble-topped tables
inside the grill room, and proceeded
to help himself to money and cigar
ettes. That the robber was not a
drug addict Is evidenced by the fact
that several hundred dollars' worth
of morphine, cocaine, heroin and
other narcotics in the prescription
room were left untouched.
Whoever the Intruder was, he was
entirely famil!arwitb the Inside of
the store, and with the operation of -the
electric cash register. He left
no clew as to his., identity, but the
police have several suspects under
surveillance, and an early arrest is
not improbable.
"We Just can't keep 'era out," said
Mr. Etheridge Monday morning,
commenting on the burglary, "they
are not satisfied to come- in sixteen
i The robber tried to open the safe,
but was unsuccessful, which Mr.
inasmuch as it can hardly be opened
by one who know8 the comDinatlon
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1Mav - Soon Canture
Big Rum Runners
Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 15 (By
The Associated Press) -Larger ves
sels than the schooners already con
fiscated are Involved In rum running
alonK Atlantic coast and
Im
portant arrests may be , expected
soon, Assistant United States Attor
ney Pearse said today.
WILL NEED TWO HUNDRED
MILLION DOLLARS MORE
Washington, Aug. 15 (By The As
sociated Press) Railroad Director
! Davis said today that an addltionul
two hundred million dollars is need
ed for the settlement of claims
1 against the administration.
KING PETER ILL
Washington, Aug. 15 (By The As
sociated Press) King Peter, of'
Serbia, is critically ill and uncon
scious says a legation message.
vv nnout Resistance
Smyrna, Aug. 15 (By The Associ-
Turks, who are retiring rapidly with-
oul resistance.
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I5AHEBALL TODAY
There will be a game of baseball
this evening at 5:30 on the West
'Maln tr'et diamond between the
Blackwell Memorial baseball team
and the First Baptist aggregation,
Thls ' the first meeting of these two
clubs, and the outcome Is hard to
av- Hotn teams will put forth their
,,)p"t efforts,
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j
should stop the minute he gets sick
and has to stay at home while the
higher paid Officials of the company.
although better able to stand the
peoplt have to live?
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